Paper-slitting machine.



No. 789,465. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905. R. VARLEY & ALBAUSGH.

PAPER SLITTING MACHINE.

ABPLIOATION I'ILBD MAY 15. 1903.

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R. VARLEY & A. BAUSOH.

PAPER SLIT'I'ING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY15, 1903.

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UNTTED S'ra rns PATENT Orricn.

RICHARD VARLEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, AN D ADAM BAUSOH,

OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO VARLEY DUPLEX .MAG- NET COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF N ElV JERSEY.

PAPER-SLlTTING MACHIN E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,465, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed May 15, 1903. Serial No. 157,263.

T (ZZZ 1117mm 77/5 W the first two disks on the lower shaft, the sec- Be it known that we, RICHARD VARLEY, reond and third disks of the lower shaft corrcsidingin the city and county of Providence and spondingly overlap the opposing faces of the State of Rhode Island, and ADAM BAUSCH, resecond and third disks of the upper shaft,

5 sidingat Jersey City, in the county of Hudson the third and fourth disks of the upper shaft and State of New Jersey,eitizens of the United likewise enter between or overlap the oppos- States, have invented certain new and useful ing faces of the third and fourth disks of the 55 Improvements in Paper-slitting Machines, of lower shaft, and so on throughout the two 00- which the following is a full, clear, and exact operating sets of disks. This provides a cleardescription. auce-space between the first and second disks This invention is a machine for slitting paof the lower shaft of a width equal to the dis per or similar fabric into narrow strips and tance between the cutting planes of those two 60 simultaneously coiling the strips into rolls. disks. Thus a strip of paper out by the first Our improved machine comprises two gangs two pairs of disks will pass through the space 5 of shearing-disks mounted upon two parallel between the disks of the lower shaft freely axes and so arranged in pairs with respect to and without buckling, because it is of subeach other that a wide web of paper passing stantially the same width as the space. Be- 5 between them is simultaneously sheared into tween the second. and third pairs of disks this a plurality of strips without waste and withclearance-space occurs between the disks on out irregularities due to the crimping or disthe upper shaft, and so on throughout the torting of the individual strips or the uncut gang of disks, the clearance being alternately lead of the web, suitable guides for the paabove and below the overlapping edges of the 7 per on its way to and from the shears, and a disks. As the edges of the disks are square winding device so arranged that the cut strips and of some thickness, they will have the 5 are wound into symmetrical disconnected intendency to push the cut strip into the cleardividual rolls or helices. ance-space.

The machine will be described in detail with In the back of the machine there is provi- 75 reference to the accompanying drawings, in sion for mounting a roll of the paper or other which* material to be slitted, (indicated by E.) A

3 Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2 is an end elevapressure-plate c bears upon the surface of the tion. Fig. 3isavertical central section. Fig. roll to provide the necessary tension. The 4. is an enlarged view of the shearing-disks wide length or web of paper f leads over a and their mountings, and Fig. 5 is a plan of table 9, whose surface is substantially in the the guideplates. same place with the meeting edges of the 3 5 In suitable upright frame plates A A are disks. The web passes in contact with a broad mounted two shafts B B, geared together spring-plate It just before it enters between through wheels 5 and driven through pulley the disks to flatten and even the sheet. After 5 and belt I). On each of these shafts is mountpassing through the disks and being slitted ed aseries of disks cand 0, respectively. The into as many individual strips 9? as there are 4 disks are separated by suitable spacing-washpairs of disks less one the paper passes beers (Z and are all clamped together by end tween two plates or guides j and k, arranged collars d, which are secured in place by sethorizontally one above the other. These 9 screws (Z The adjoining rims of the two plates have rearwardly-projecting springsets of disks overlap each other slightly, so as fingers y" and A, those on the upper plate .form a plurality of shearing or cutting pairs. passing into the clearance-spaces between the The overlapping of these disks is peculiarly disks and gradually curving upward toward arranged. For instance, the first two disks on the surface of the spacingwashers, while the upper shaft overlap two opposite faces of those on the lower plate curve in the opposite direction and enter the clearance-spaces between the lower disks. These fingers serve as strippers and restore the strips to the plane of movement across the table after having been deflected into the clearance-spaces by the cutting-disks.

Between suitable brackets u u, attached to the main frame, is mounted ashaft or spindle 0, having a pulley 0, through which it is rotated by means of a belt 0 driven from one of the shafts B B, as shown in Fig. 2, the speed of the spindle being somewhat faster than that of the rolls to maintain tension on the strips. This shaft carries or serves as a core upon which to wind all of the strips 2 simultaneously. In order to effect this winding symmetrically under proper tension and entirely independent of each other, we provide another roller, 1), which has its bearings in inclined slots formed in the brackets u and radiating from the axis of spindle 0 and in which it is free to rise and fall as the rolls build up or the tension changes. This roll rests on top of the series of strips 2' and is provided with a number of annular spacingiianges 7), which enter between the strips to offset them from each other slightly just before they are wound on the spindle 0. The

weight of roller 1) constantly applied to the strips and the roll always hugging the peripheries of the paper-rolls insures a symmetrical winding of the latter and that each roll shall be formed independently of the others. The roller 3) is preferably weighted and the weight 19 applied at the middle point of a bale 1), whose extremities are fixed to the respective ends of the shaft of the roll. This distribution of the weight helps to maintain the roll horizontally,while permitting it to rise in the inclined slots as the coil is built up.

It will be obvious that by adjusting the number and size of the washers between the cutting-disks the width of the cut strips may be altered as desired.

Having described our invention, we claim In a machine for slitting paper or like material, the combination or two sets or gangs of disks mounted upon parallel axes and overlapping each other in pairs to form shearing edges, the disks of one set being so spaced that each successive two of them will enter between and overlap the opposing faces of the corresponding two disks in the other set, thus providing clearing-spaces of a width corresponding to the cut strips and two sets of stripping-lingers enteringsaid clearing-spaces and adapted to direct the cut strip into one plane.

In witness whereof we subscribe our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD VARLEY. ADAM BAUSCH.

W itnesses:

M. M CaoswELL, VVILLETT CHADWIOK. 

